Another thing that helps is being an adult. Most people develop their social anxiety during their school years, where they are forced into an institution with a bunch of little psychopaths and never get the chance to reinvent themselves or meet completely new social groups.
Once you graduate high school, most people are much more mature, you can choose where and when to meet people so that they will likely align with your values and interests, and if you don’t like a particular social group or they don’t like you, you can just try out other ones.
Another thing that helps is being an adult. Most people develop their social anxiety during their school years, where they are forced into an institution with a bunch of little psychopaths and never get the chance to reinvent themselves or meet completely new social groups.
Once you graduate high school, most people are much more mature, you can choose where and when to meet people so that they will likely align with your values and interests, and if you don’t like a particular social group or they don’t like you, you can just try out other ones.
Schools are hell, it’s borderline child abuse with the social conditions